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Old 21-February-2008, 03:37 AM
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Default Bizarre light in the southern sky during eclipse

Okay, I wandered out a few minutes ago to check out the in-progress lunar eclipse. In my peripheral vision, I saw this traveling light moving up the sky toward me from the south. It was orange, flickering, and moving like an airplane and about as fast, a bit larger than a star appears. After about fifteen seconds, it started to dim and suddenly disappeared. Not obscured, but gone. What airplanes fly with orange lights? I took a picture of it, but it's not very helpful: just an orange dot squiggled out by camera shake.

Any ideas? Satellite? Meteorite?
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